Lost All My Tools

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Ron

Lately the toolbars on my browser up and vanished for no apparent
reason. I ran a virus check but found nothing. Does anybody know what
happened to the toolbar and/or how to get it back?

Ron
 
That helped a lot; thanks. But it's *only* my toolbar. Not to  be
picky, but what  happened to the rest?   :-)

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Have you used IE7's Reset?
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No... I use-- while I hate it-- IE6. Last time I heard, IE7 won't run
on Windows 2000.

Ron
 
After you install and uninstall some toolbar items in Internet Explorer 6,
toolbar names may become blank, or unrelated toolbar items may appearhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/942202/en-us
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
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That's very interesting, but it's not the problem I have. When I press
F11 as suggested, my toolbar comes back at the very top of the screen
but the other important things like the address window and the other
things that are usually a part of IE6 ( File, Edit, Vew, etc) are
gone. I can have one or the other when
*all* of those things should be there together at one time. If the
Opera browser wasn't missing one or two
things, I would switch to Opera. But as it stands, it looks like I am
gonna have to re-install IE6 as it seems to have gotten corrupted
somehow. Bummer... ;-(

Ron
 
Ron said:
That's very interesting, but it's not the problem I have. When I press
F11 as suggested, my toolbar comes back at the very top of the screen
but the other important things like the address window and the other
things that are usually a part of IE6 ( File, Edit, Vew, etc) are
gone. I can have one or the other when
*all* of those things should be there together at one time. If the
Opera browser wasn't missing one or two
things, I would switch to Opera. But as it stands, it looks like I am
gonna have to re-install IE6 as it seems to have gotten corrupted
somehow. Bummer
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Make sure the toolbar's unlocked > "Grab" the bottom edge of the toolbar
you can see with your cursor > "Push" it as far up as it will go > Now
"pull" it down until the missing stuff reappears > Lock the toolbar.
 
Make sure the toolbar's unlocked  > "Grab" the bottom edge of the toolbar
you can see with your cursor > "Push" it as far up as it will go > Now
"pull" it down until the missing stuff reappears > Lock the toolbar.
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Can't do any of that. When F11 is toggled, the toolbar appears at the
top and *stays* there; it can't be moved at all. Ditto for the
address window when F11 is toggled the other way-- nothing ca be moved
or sized.

Ron
 
Make sure the toolbar's unlocked  > "Grab" the bottom edge of the toolbar
you can see with your cursor > "Push" it as far up as it will go > Now
"pull" it down until the missing stuff reappears > Lock the toolbar.
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I should add that in the past (not that it happens a lot), the only
way to solve a major problem like this is to do a "root canal" as we
engineers say; to reset everything back to IE4 then re-install a clean
version of IE6.

Ron
 
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No... I use-- while I hate it-- IE6. Last time I heard, IE7 won't run
on Windows 2000.
</qp>


Your OS provides an IE Repair (ref. KB194177)

E.g. you could Run... (press Win-R and enter:)

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance

That requires a boot to do the .dll re-registration so you might as well
shut down all apps before starting it.

An alternative which I would use with the same caveat though it does not
force a boot would be this cmd file provided courtesy of MVP Kai Schaetzl

http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=24&id=31&artlang=en


BTW other Google posters have somehow found a way to avoid
Quoted Printable (e.g. switch to Plain Text) for their replies.
It would be very helpful if you could find out how that is done
and use it too.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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BTW other Google posters have somehow found a way to avoid
Quoted Printable (e.g. switch to Plain Text) for their replies.
It would be very helpful if you could find out how that is done
and use it too.
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I have no idea what you are talking about..

Ron
 
Ron said:
I should add that in the past (not that it happens a lot), the only
way to solve a major problem like this is to do a "root canal" as we
engineers say; to reset everything back to IE4 then re-install a clean
version of IE6.
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Are you running Win2K SP4? Have you ever uninstalled/reinstall Windows
without having first uninstalled IE6?
 
Are you running Win2K SP4?  Have you ever uninstalled/reinstall Windows
without having first uninstalled IE6?
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Yes, to the first and no to the second. While it's not something I've
done often, once when a virus had apparently ruined IE6 to the point
that it was completely unstable, I had removed IE6 and reset
everything back to IE4 and started out "fresh" since it seems to be
impossible to completely remove *all* versions of IE. But for just
such occasions I had checked the option so everything was backed up
and all the needed files of the original version (IE4) could be
restored if the need arised. Uh, arisen-- whatever.

I had downloaded the complete IE6 installation quite some time ago for
just such an emergency so I didn't even need Internet access.
Sometimes-- like in this case when all else has failed-- a root
canal is the best way to fix a problem. I didn't want a potentially
dirty or otherwise corrupted element to creep back in and possibly
make the new version do the same thing as before-- and I have seen
that happen sometimes.

Ron
 
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